Wall Street Journal
Instead of lauding
Robert Novak for protecting the sources who disclosed
Valerie Plame's name, "many of his colleagues in the Fourth Estate seem eager to throw him over the side," says a
Wall Street Journal editorial. "Call it 'the Novak exception.' By that we mean the rule that comes into play when a conservative journalist is involved. No critic could sum this up better than
Geneva Overholser did in her New York Times
op-ed earlier this month calling for Mr. Novak to betray his sources." (Disclosure: Overholser is a Poynter
blogger.)
